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Brother against brother: the Civil War in Kerry
The Irish Civil War has often been described as the war of the brothers. Families were sometimes split down the middle in disagreement over the
June 9, 2022
War of Independence
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‘We rode on … carrying our revolvers in our hands’
An extract from ‘Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush’ by Owen O’Shea (Merrion Press, 2021) The police completed their business in Tralee by 2.45pm
November 5, 2021
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Ballymacandy – RTÉ Nationwide 30 June 2021
A feature from the RTÉ Nationwide programme on the Ballymacandy Ambush in County Kerry in 1921 which was broadcast on 30 June 2021. The report
July 30, 2021
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Killarney woman was last to die in Ireland’s War of Independence
Killarney waitress struck by stray bullet a few minutes before the Truce on 11 July 1921 The very final victim of Ireland’s War of Independence
July 5, 2021
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What I learned while researching the war in my community
Learnings from researching the ambush at Ballymacandy History isn’t really an interest of mine: it’s more like an obsession. It’s difficult to adequately articulate what
May 7, 2021
